Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0532a5180831b0a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.6 KB Created: 2021-09-11 03:18:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-31
MD5: 1c229445efe815327b63bbde53e51d53 SHA-1: ba36b9751da7f51ed5fe03ff29b468b9c68cdf2d SHA-256: 0532a5180831b0a658a992549645b1684ef3acb065718ec8619e0016c66c7d03
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites or disposable hosting, indicating a link farm designed to lead users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly suggest this PDF is malicious, likely serving as a phishing lure or a distribution point for further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the URL structure and heuristic firings are sufficient for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://www.karavanlakesfet.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d2bedec502f551e4d7938ebf2b7e8bbf/77072149194.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://benthanhsgfarm.net/images/uploads/files/73917429287.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ssmavidiyar.com/public/content-images/files/71385580046.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ceramicaartisticamarsalese.it/userfiles/files/5045443264.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aan.kz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/defoves.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80aaeiengkwpz6p.xn--p1ai/pub/file/83959332173.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://inbiosa.eu/static/cfiles/files/87199644920.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tns-china.cn/editor_upload_image/file/7995679304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ozmutludokum.com/userfiles/file/46201705355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://myhomeinparis.com/userfiles/files/dogekiroli.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://slenderclub.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/46125282745.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.financedeclined.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be117b9f56---35837549774.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hainescentreasia.com/images/file/tezubelovexidibuzuru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rpv-drachten.nl/files/file/77610654011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://protech.com.ng/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613be6f813dc8---78773027554.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://methese.com/upload/files/32228232782.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://mayinmaunhat.com/upload/files/58656156383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://clubsahdianagalati.ro/upload/editor/file/towom.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://jujucuisine.com/userfiles/file/zibepigesele.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://geniodelweb.com/file/wexivel.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ekoforte.com/upload/file/dolawusinonanajowanix.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edgecs.com/documents/8145313233.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1613ac91e3881e---falosuruxokajosidosub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bukharaalpharetta.com/sites/default/files/file/senexozu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zartmobilia.com/userfiles/file/20210909190016.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BkSY9tpko7c/uplcv?utm_term=caloundra+netball+associationPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000e22e.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22E 19032 bytes
SHA-256: 29d9be4072bf80d29b6b21afb3f489d994155955cf92dd232e16c9f733dde47b
font_01_sfnt_off000113df.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113DF 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012bf6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12BF6 10636 bytes
SHA-256: ec5563bbca15177471bb1316a10f9743856d70b7926a604f6264c39d046bbec6